Lhasa de Sela - La Llorona (1997/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 44:15 minutes | 515 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover
Some might have seen Lhasa’s first album, “La Llorona”, as a curiosity, an exotic accident. The singer and songwriter appeared from nowhere in 1997 with an album that defied definition, capturing a Latin world of her own imagination born of an itinerant childhood spent between Mexico and the US. The music was both familiar and truly unique, a mix of ranchero music, Eastern European gypsy music, country, and popular song writing, with intensely personal lyrics in Spanish, and a passionate vocal delivery. The album was written and produced in Montréal, and in many ways could not have been made anywhere else. These are songs inspired by a warm country but written in a cold one, with a Brontë-like romanticism, a wry and literate sense of humor, and moments of startling emotional rawness.